http://mmajunkie.comWorld Victory Road’s latest offering is in the books, the organization’s first welterweight title fight is set, and four competitors advanced past the quarterfinal round of the the season-long Asian bantamweight grand prix.

Today’s Sengoku Raiden Championship 15 event, though, also featured a scoring flub in the main event.

Despite appearing to earn a clear-cut win over Japanese fighter Hiroshi Izumi, headliner and British light heavyweight instead was tagged with a baffling split-decision loss.

It was one of four split decisions on the card, which took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. The show aired live in North America in the early morning hours on HDNet.

Zikic (18-7-2 MMA, 0-1 SRC), who’s competed in many of Britain’s top promotions (and fought on the UFC’s first U.K. card, UFC 38, in 2002), kept the bout standing and did damage with punches. But despite being battered and clearly bloodied initially from a vicious first-round strike, Izumi (3-1 MMA, 3-1 SRC), a 2004 Olympic silver-medal judoka for Japan, surprisingly earned the win.

In other action, former UFC fighter Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (20-4-2 MMA, 2-0 SRC) and Swiss Yasubey Enomoto (6-1 MMA, 2-1 SRC) both posted victories in welterweight grand-prix semifinal fights and now are set to fight in December for the promotion’s first-ever 170-pound title.

Nakamura forced Takuya Wada (20-9-10 MMA, 1-1 SRC) into submission with an impressive and overwhelming display of strikes from a Matt Hughes-like crucifix position. The win followed a previous tourney victory over Omar de la Cruz. Enomoto, meanwhile, advanced with an August submission win over Kenta Takagi and a lopsided unanimous-decision victory over Taisuke Okuno (10-5-2 MMA, 1-1 SRC) today.

In the day’s other slate of tourney bouts, four fighters advanced to the semifinal round of the season-long bantamweight grand prix, which has featured talent from throughout Asia’s top regional promotions. All of the fights ended via two-round decisions.

Unfortunately, there will be no Cinderella story in the tourney; all of the fighters who received automatic berths into quarterfinal round won their fights, and all of the competitors who came from smaller organizations and fought their way to the final eight were eliminated today.

A total of 26 fighters got their chance to shine on Saturday as part of UFC 190 at Rio de Janeiro’s HSBC Arena. Now that UFC 190 is in the books, it’s time to commence MMAjunkie’s “Three Stars” ceremony.

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